"but rock music was black."

except that it wasn't. it was a synthesis. and in the sense that it was partly black, it never identified that way. early rock musicians were sometimes black, but they rarely made their blackness central to their art.

hip-hop was constructed for the sole purpose of exploring black identity. it really doesn't make sense when you separate it from it's blackness. so, how can it make sense to white people? what does it have to offer people that aren't black?